François Matarasso

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  • ICAF is cancelled

    The speed and depth of the events we are all now living through takes my breath away. Just a month ago, I encouraged readers of this blog to come to Rotterdam to the triennial International Community Arts Festival, truly a landmark in the field. I just learned that the event has been cancelled, one more…

  • A story that deserves telling

    Yesterday I got an email from a research student called Chloé Bradwell who wanted to contact artists who had worked with older people during the 1980s. At the time, I was at East Midlands Shape, a small organisation working in the arts mainly with disabled people. Her request reminded me how much the landscape of…

  • Learning from scientists

    Part of the adventure of the Traction project is working with people from very different disciplines to mine. I knew that opera was a stretch but I’ve always been drawn to what I don’t understand. The technology side, though, is so far beyond the limits of my competences that I can only let it wash…

  • Is opera exclusive?

  • Easy art

    Digital technology is changing our lives in such profound ways that it’s not easy to understand what kind of society or culture will emerge. Past experience suggests that its new powers will have mixed consequences. Already it enables people both to share knowledge through Wikipedia and to threaten strangers on Twitter, and those are only…

  • Streetwise Opera needs help

    This is another unusual post. (I seem to be making a habit of that just now, but normal business will be resumed shortly.) It’s about Streetwise Opera, a community music organisation that works with and supports people with experience of homelessness. I first heard about them about 15 years ago, and I’ve seen several of…